The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-11-24
Daily Observations

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shot from Wilson's gun. It stung lit
tie but did no serious damage. Rev
and Mrs. j. E. Rudisill are out of town
Prayer meeting at M. E. was led by O.
Miller. Mr. and Mrs. w. III. Ander
son, of Pearl Street, have gone West tt
attend the wedding of their daughter.
Large quantities of quail are being
shipped from points along the Railroads
in this County Mr.. and Mrs. Fleet
Monahan are in town ...... The "Mili
tary History of Ohio. and Jackson Coun-
tv," has been delivered. This book pre-
tends to give history of every soldier
in the service from Jackson County. and
contains perhaps about seven hundred
names, while there were more than two
thousand soldiers from this County. 1t
isn't much use to look for one of them
for man who has one will not care to
acknowledge it The funeral of T. T.
Jones was largely attended this morning.
......Dr. Kitchen is limping some from
sprained hip, caused long time ago by
horse falling with him. But, for lame
man, the Doctor makes a most remarka-
BILE run. Rink again tonight. The
Band paraded the streets. Our old
friend John Reed, of Franklin Township,
called to-day The new moon appears
old sign indicates warmer weather IF
warmer weather means rain, then we are
in favor of warm weather.
THURsDAY.-Court has been occupied
with Wellston damage suit .... Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Rudisill have been to Cen
treville. -. Mrs. Charles Rhodes of
Washington is not improving as rapidly
as her friends could wish. -. Mrs.
Shropshire of Samsonville is here. .....
Mrs. Joe Patterson, of Wellston is here.
-. Mrs. Lucy Palmer has had the good
fortune to receive large pensiop. 49,.
Work on the Nail Mill is getting on slow
ly. but still going 49,. Mayor Adam
Scott, of Wellston, is here. .....Our old
friend John Conner, of Illinois, sends
neat lithograph picture of his farmhouse
and grounds, which may be seen at this
office. ..... Tom Delay. on his recent visit
to Missouri and Kansas, met Andy Han
ma, and other old Jackson County men.
Speaking of stock-buying in the west,
Mr.. Delay says he saw some hogs driven
in for Mr.. Hanna to purchase, that had
been driven more than one hundred miles.
The weather is turning colder to-
night Robert Claar must have been
over on the other side of Pattensville,
this evening. If he had been anywhere
on this side, he would have heard Sheriff
Lively calling him, in front of the Court
House. When Jim lets his voice out it
gets to business, at once. -. Another
store to be started on Broadway I'VE
promised the boys to mention, last week,
that the business houses of Jackson would
be closed on Thanksgiving, but forgot it.
No BUSINESS viii be done in Jackson on
next Thursday. -. Mrs. Hawk and Miss
Callie May have gone into the Dress
Making business at the residence of the
former, on Sycamore Street. They are
both skilled in this line of work, and turn
out excellent work.
FRIDAY.-Judge Miller and Mr.. Frank
took quail hunt ...-. Mr.. Coffman, the
baling-machine man, is again in town..
-. George Poor is at home to-day. He
is railroading, and in town but seldom
during the day. IA man who has been
attending Court steadily, remarked to-
day concerning the damage suit against
Wellston: "There are lots of worse plac-
es in this town, than the one upon which
Stiffier was hurt" And there are num-
Der of places suited to the breaking of
limbs .Meachan has the materials
all ready to begin another house for
George DeveI near the big stable near
Portsmouth Street. .Workmen are
putting the slate roof on the Presbyterian
Church to-day The Chestnut boys
have gone back out west ..... d. d. Ed
wards, of Rocky Hill, has been granted
an increase of pension. AT the Saliva
tion Army quarters tonight, while
hymns were being sung on the inside a
nasty quarrel was going on between some
half-grown boys on the outside.
SATURDAY.-A cold snow tonight and
much cold weather. There was no |
meeting of Francis Smith Post G. A. R.
tonight, owing to the bad weather, large |
ly..... "A fierce wind-storm set in about |
two o'clock this afternoon, causing a |
binding cloud of dust about town. Du-
ring the gale the east wall of the Nail
Mill, which was up nearly to the top
round, was blown, nearly to the ground. |
This will cause but slight delay in
the building, but will entail some addi-
tional expense. Nobody seriously hurt. |
The workmen had been at work on the
wall during the day and it was yet |
green" .......A well known Democrat |
from the country made a remark in one
of our business houses which is too good
to be lost. He laid: 81 used to wonder why
the Republicans didn't hang old jeff Dav-
see it all now, since the election. They
wanted to keep him to electioqaeer with p
And the old fellow has certainly done
some good electioneering during the
present year. Another well known
Democrat, speaking of the Anarchists.
said "they are all foreigners but one
(meaning Parsons, who was Texas
man, He was corrected by stranger
with the remark that "all were foreign.
ers." "Why, Parsons wasn't p said the
Democrat. "Oh, yes !" said the stranger
she was from the South" the Southern
Confedracy.) 1t was some months before
the Democrat saw the point, and when
he did he was not pleased.
SUNDAY.-A bitterly cold day, with
slight snow on the ground .....T The u.s.
ual attendance at Sunday Schools and
Churches. 49,. Rev. Rudisill is preaching
a serious of sermons on the Lords Pray
er, and interesting and instructive ser
mons they are, too. 1900 1t is time to be-
gin arrangements for Christmas enter
tainments, and we understand the ladies
of the NJ E. Church, think of having a